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“No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.”

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The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

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Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

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Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

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“A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated…

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